Very interesting! Prototype is not the prettiest thing, but hey, if it would help people would use it!
Like you, Socks, I've needed optical aids since an early age. Unaided, one eye will focus at 4 inches and the other at 9". So I'd be pretty useless in the workforce without aid.
The difference that can be made for people who have cataracts is also amazing; such a simple operation and one which can be done amazingly cheaply and in minutes, in developing countries.
To supply these self-adjusting specs won't solve every problem but it could solve some problems. If people can see, they can work, and that brings wealth to their whole communities.
Are these to be provided free of charge (charitable) or to be paid for, in which case $19 might be difficult for some developing countries' workers.
They're not the prettiest things, that's for sure. Might define a new level of "geek". :)
From what I've read he's looking at grants and support to pay for them in underdeveloped countries and then it will move in with whatever mechanisms or organizations to support delivery. Cost related to production goes down as the whole deal gets set up and production increases I guess. It's a user adjustable deal, so while some assistance would be required the user is able to determine the "is it better like this - or like this?" part. Super simple, for what it is.
Yep, for basic improving of sight, it's a cheap, doable solution.
Well done! Â It's so simple too, why didn't anyone think of it sooner?? Â Â Â Great invention, and very altruistic
I wear eyeglasses too, I've been buying mine on the internet lately, you can get the same lenses and frames anywhere from $19-$70 online when they would normally cost hundreds at a brick & motar retailer.
Simply and awesomely done, doable, and being implemented. Amazing.
The format of the study is great...like a science experiment. Being funded (by the Brits no less) is commendable and that initial control distribution to Guyana is targeted, is life giving. (I've come to understand why people "got old" so much faster in generations gone by...one reason being that you are totally relagated to function within your sphere of vision...you can't see, you don't do...)
Now, how could America capitalize on this you might ask?
Do a reality survival show, of course. Palin wear vs. Silver wear...somewhere between Guyana and Alaska or
The cartoon network could produce a show with a geek guyanese guy wearing self-adjustable sight savers as the unlikely super-hero trying to get the other geeky third worlders to see things his/her way...
Bravo channel could arrange for a falling star...say, Urkel... to endorse them and make geekwear a happening thing...
James Lipton could interview the star that made it so...
Oprah would underwrite the book deal and give geekware to all the studio audience...
QVC would come out with designer geek by adding a blob of tape to the middle to keep them together...
The Daily Show would highlight them, Colbert would sport them as a lark...SNL would satirize the importance of anyone not saavy enuf to wear them
and responding to the importance of it all, the newest Fox show, Desperate Guyanese Houseboys, would be born...
Without glasses, I am severly diminished....without coffee and glasses, I am doomed.
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Very interesting! Prototype is not the prettiest thing, but hey, if it would help people would use it!
Like you, Socks, I've needed optical aids since an early age. Unaided, one eye will focus at 4 inches and the other at 9". So I'd be pretty useless in the workforce without aid.
The difference that can be made for people who have cataracts is also amazing; such a simple operation and one which can be done amazingly cheaply and in minutes, in developing countries.
To supply these self-adjusting specs won't solve every problem but it could solve some problems. If people can see, they can work, and that brings wealth to their whole communities.
Are these to be provided free of charge (charitable) or to be paid for, in which case $19 might be difficult for some developing countries' workers.
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They're not the prettiest things, that's for sure. Might define a new level of "geek". :)
From what I've read he's looking at grants and support to pay for them in underdeveloped countries and then it will move in with whatever mechanisms or organizations to support delivery. Cost related to production goes down as the whole deal gets set up and production increases I guess. It's a user adjustable deal, so while some assistance would be required the user is able to determine the "is it better like this - or like this?" part. Super simple, for what it is.
Yep, for basic improving of sight, it's a cheap, doable solution.
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Well done! Â It's so simple too, why didn't anyone think of it sooner?? Â Â
 Great invention, and very altruistic
I wear eyeglasses too, I've been buying mine on the internet lately, you can get the same lenses and frames anywhere from $19-$70 online when they would normally cost hundreds at a brick & motar retailer.
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Golly, Mishter Wishard!
Simply and awesomely done, doable, and being implemented. Amazing.
The format of the study is great...like a science experiment. Being funded (by the Brits no less) is commendable and that initial control distribution to Guyana is targeted, is life giving. (I've come to understand why people "got old" so much faster in generations gone by...one reason being that you are totally relagated to function within your sphere of vision...you can't see, you don't do...)
Now, how could America capitalize on this you might ask?
Do a reality survival show, of course. Palin wear vs. Silver wear...somewhere between Guyana and Alaska or
The cartoon network could produce a show with a geek guyanese guy wearing self-adjustable sight savers as the unlikely super-hero trying to get the other geeky third worlders to see things his/her way...
Bravo channel could arrange for a falling star...say, Urkel... to endorse them and make geekwear a happening thing...
James Lipton could interview the star that made it so...
Oprah would underwrite the book deal and give geekware to all the studio audience...
QVC would come out with designer geek by adding a blob of tape to the middle to keep them together...
The Daily Show would highlight them, Colbert would sport them as a lark...SNL would satirize the importance of anyone not saavy enuf to wear them
and responding to the importance of it all, the newest Fox show, Desperate Guyanese Houseboys, would be born...
Without glasses, I am severly diminished....without coffee and glasses, I am doomed.
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Here is another program with similar goals.
http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/visio...recycling.shtml
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Matilda...If you ever run for office, ya' got my vote!
Maybe the current administration could throw a couple gazillion $$$ in as a stimulus?
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